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Admission-Ticket.

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MLPI'ER?, PHOTDvLITHDGRAPMER, WASHINGTON: D C.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK H. OYRENIUS, OF SORIBA, NEW YORK.

ADMISSION-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,493, dated February8, 1881.

Application filed J une 28, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK H. GYRE- NiUs, of Scriba, in the county ofOswego, in the State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Admission-Tickets, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing, is a full, clear, and exactdescription. i

This invention relates to season-tickets for admissions to fairs,theaters, camp-meetings, &c., usually 'continuing several days. Theusual style of these tickets merely contained the name of the partyentitled to the use of same. Such tickets are not designed to betransferable, and so long as the holder of the ticket is personallyknown to the door-tender no fraudulent use of the ticket can bepracticed; but since this is not always the. case persons have takenadvantage of such occasions by surreptitiously passing their ticket frominside of the inclosure to parties outside, and thus allowing them touse said ticket t admit them.

It is to obviate such fraudulent use of the ticket which my inventionhas for its object; and to that end it consistsin the peculiar form ofticket hereinafter described. v

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanyin g drawing, whichrepresents a season-ticket adapted for a State, county, or other fair,saidticket being divided into a number of sections equal to the numberof days for which the ticket is designed to be used. Each of saidsections is subdivided into two parts or columns, one of which is markedin and the other out,7 or `with other synonymous words.

The method of using this ticket is as follows: Each exit as well as eachadmittance of the holder of the ticket is to be registered on the ticketby punching a hole or otherwise marking therein, the admittances beingregistered in the in-column and the exits in the outcolumn of thesection marked the day correspending with that on which it is used. The

eect of this is obvious. On presenting the ticket for admission theprevious registries in the exit-column of the ticket must be equal tothe registries in the admission-column. Otherwise it shows that anotherperson has entered with the same ticket and is still inside theinclosure.

Where tickets are designed to admit man and wife I prefer to print ineach column fig- -ures 1 and 2, alternately, as shown in the drawing,thereby saving time in registering. When both enter at once the gure 2iu the admissioucolumn is canceled, and if only one enters figure l inthe same column is canceled. If a man passes out alone, leaving hiswifeinside of the inclosure, figure l of the exit-column is canceled,thus proving that his partner is still in the inclosure, and preventinghim from using the ticket to pass another person in with him. This sameresult is produced in every case where an improper transfer of theticket has been made. At the close of. cach day of the fair all personsmay be allowed to pass out without presenting their ticket for registry.Each succeeding day another section of the ticket is used forregistering, as before described.

In addition to the advantages already set forth, it will be observedthat bymeans of my improved ticket the use of extra return-checks,usually given at theaters, may be dispensed with.

What I claim as my invention is- A ticket divided into sections, eachmarked for a certain day on which the ticket may be used, and havingeach of said sections subdivided into two parts for registering,respectively, the number of admissions and number of exits of the holderof the ticket, substantially as described,for1 the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal,in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Oswego, in the county ofOswego and State of New York, this 19th day of May, 1880.

